ir-playbook-privilege-escalation skillA
ir-playbook-privilege-escalation is agent-read markdown (skill) from gensecaihq/wazuh-autopilot: Incident-response playbook for privilege escalation on Linux and Windows — sudo/su abuse, SUID and capability misuse, kernel modules and exploits, sudoers/cron/systemd tampering, UAC bypass, admin-group changes and process injection; use when Wazuh raises escalation indicators (e.g. rules 5404, 5405, 5302, 80721, 92046, 92055, 60154) or a user gains unexpected root/SYSTEM..
Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.
What the file says
# IR Playbook — Privilege Escalation Severity **critical** when escalation succeeds. MITRE ATT&CK TA0004: T1548 (.001 SUID, .002 UAC bypass, .003 sudo), T1068 (exploitation), T1055 (process injection), T1053.003 (cron), T1543 (services), T1547.006 (kernel modules), T1098 / T1484 (account and group changes). Rule IDs are from the stock Wazuh 4.14 ruleset (levels official). Full procedure and forensic commands: `references/playbook.md`. ## 1. Detection signals | Signal | Wazuh rules (level) | Notes | |---|---|---| | sudo failures | rules 5401 (L5), 5404 (L10, three failures), 5405 (L5, user not in sudoers) | group `sudo` | | sudo to root / first-time sudo | rules 5402 (L3), 5403 (L4) | low level on their own — escalate when the user or command is unusual | | su to root | rules 5302 (L9, failed su to root), 5303 (L3, successful su to root) | group `su` | | auditd root transition | rules 80721 (L10, user becomes root), 80742 (L5, user ID changed) | requires auditd | | New user / group, account changes (Linux) | rules 5902 (L8), 5901 (L8), 5904 (L8), 2961 (L5, user added to group sudo) | group `adduser` | | Root crontab changed | rule 2833 (L8) | persistence after escalation | …
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How to install
mdr add gensecaihq/wazuh-autopilot/ir-playbook-privilege-escalation@v2.1mdr add gensecaihq/wazuh-autopilot/ir-playbook-privilege-escalation@sha256:5cd6fec68d27949bPin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
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- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (7206 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
gensecaihq/wazuh-autopilot · 57 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-24 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_tlz6v5gmbhiamlad GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=gensecaihq/wazuh-autopilot/ir-playbook-privilege-escalation GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5cd6fec68d27949bc76ba39cc54858783bfa2af9506c5a67f20d8403e0001615
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